Shawn William Parker

#QOTD: What is your favorite candy?

First of all, if you want to increase engagement with your content, you need to make sure you're putting out quality product. Once you know that you're hitting the right notes with the material you'e putting out, you need to put your efforts into business development. 

When an opportunity presents itself, pounce on it. Hustle. Be mindful of the environments and conversations you want to get involved in and be sure that you're offering them value in exchange for what you want from them -- exposure. 

When I didn't have the base that I have now, I was out on the streets hustling for Wine Library, formerly named Shopper's Discount Liquors. I was walking into any business that might be relevant to my community and passing out flyers and coupons one-by-one to gain more exposure. Nobody gave a crap or knew who we were but I knocked on doors and made sure we got the exposure we needed. 

So, can you biz dev? Are you willing to hustle to make it happen? Are you willing to work 15+ hours a day to make it happen? In today's world, there's so much room and opportunity to bring value to somebody, but it's never going to happen if all you care about is yourself . 


#AskGaryVee Episode 33: Increasing Exposure Through Business Development

Audio Summary of Great by  Choice,  authored by Jim Collins and Morten T Hansen, prepared and narrated by Barbara Craven of Platinum Connection.  It summarises and covers:

*  What working in an unpredictable economic and social environment does to companies and its options
 
•   What needs to be done to ensure steady, consistent growth - and why should we anyway
 
•  What characterises a business leader who can create great companies in these uncertain   times
 
•   What role does innovation and creativity NOT play in building and being great. 

Enjoy the narrated speed read.
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Great by Choice: audio Summary by Business Breakthrough

Texas-based Shawn William Parker is a well-educated executive that can deliver exceptional results when it comes to business development, sales and community affairs. When working for Cola-Cola Bottling Company, he closed the largest vending contract in Southern California. He then joined the Edward Thomas Company in Southern California and ran the Guest Relations Department. Later he became a campaign manager for Tan Parker.